Word: rodeo
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...director of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo shook his head violently over the new ballet. Said he: "You might as well put a mustache on a Rubens." He tried to get Rodeo-and the American woman who composed it-thrown out of the company...
...director failed, and a few nights later, the Ballet Russe presented Rodeo at the Met. To almost everyone's surprise, Manhattan thought it was wonderful...
...Copland: Rodeo, and Waltz from Billy the Kid (Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati conducting; Victor, 6 sides). Five dances from the popular ballets; much of it is derivative, but also bright and fetching. Performance: good. Recording: good...
...realism just suited the Wild West he wanted to paint: the lurid desert sunsets, the cowboys and Indians, bucking broncs and buffaloes. Leigh roamed the vast raw country on horseback, turned east with a firsthand knowledge second only to Frederic Remington's. "Those tired old nags at the rodeo," he says chuckling into his snowy cavalry mustache, "don't know the first thing about bucking." Invited on two scientific expeditions to Africa, Leigh sketched constantly and confidently, came back to paint a series of vivid panoramas for the New York Museum of Natural History's African Hall...
Having recently decided to run for President, Howdy adds a new "thingumajig" to his platform each week from viewers' suggestions (samples: cut-rate banana splits, more pictures in history books, free circus and rodeo admissions). Last week Howdy announced that he would send campaign buttons to any child who wrote in. Two days later, the first order of 5,000 buttons had been exhausted, and requests were still arriving by the sackful...